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OKHOOSIER

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    Looking forward to the Mick Cronin announcement. *ducks*
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    It will be interesting in a couple years when someone finally does a study on the transfer portal and average time at one school. I imagine we are quickly moving towards where dudes doing 4 years at one school is going to be a very low percentage. It’s gotten absurd in football with guys making multiple high major changes. Basketball seems to have money distributed differently where big transfers mostly don’t hop to second big school.
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    Comparing him calling out fans over that to Woody whining about fans booing when down 30 at home are not remotely similar.
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    That’s why the media and CBB fans, particularly at Purdue, love seeing us down. Whether they want to admit it or not they all know we are one good hire away from being consistently top-10 again. I’m sure we weren’t completely innocent, but we certainly weren’t dropping bags like the others. Our success in the portal since it’s been legal and keeping good players in spite of poor coaching just reinforces that. We are the sleeping giant Nebraska football fancies itself but without being 800 miles from decent recruiting grounds.
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    Maybe Brad is just banking on the futility of IU administration when it comes to managing basketball and knows he can evaluate his life at the time and do this every 3-4 years in perpetuity lol
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    “I’d also like to thank the true fans, who know that basketball is only mediocre in the eye of the beholder.”
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    I don’t think we are being entirely fair to OK here. They had three final fours, 13 conference championships, a few conference tournament championships among other things prior to Kelvin getting there. They weren’t the little sisters of the poor.
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    Careful, we’ve already established a round only counts if it’s the one you lose in lol.
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    Well the numbers say he is. If your “eye-test” says otherwise that’s understandable and I’m not gonna litigate it again, you and I have already lol.. we have different opinions on that, all good. You missed the main point of what I said. He’s top-5 in the realistic options if we are being honest about who is coming to IU. No one here making a wish list is gonna have him top-5 because no ones top-5s are generally rooted in reality. Cronin is somewhere in the 6-10 range, which is most likely the pool we find a coach if Dusty says no. I’ve always thought that, but there was no reason to argue it, we had plenty of trolls here to tell us how unrealistic we were.
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    Cronin isn’t in anyone’s top-5 I don’t think. What I do think is he’s in the top-5 of good coaches who would actually say yes to coming to IU. I much prefer fun rumors on a free forum that may or may not be true according to the Postal Service* That said and I’ve chided the trolls on this repeatedly— I, and many I would guess, never thought chances of Brad was that realistic. 0%? No, there’s a chance. Over 25%? No way. So where does that leave us? With a ton of eggs in the Dusty basket. He says no? Where does that leave us? Otz, Drew, Oats, Few, Beard, Pearl, et. al. Are not walking through the door. I’d put any of those at less than 5% chance if I’m being honest and making odds. So some combination of the field is what I would bet on. And Cronin isn’t a bad option of the field. Even he is moot anyways unless the buyout was renegotiated. No whale booster is gonna pay that ridiculous buyout for a Cronin.
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    Well it’s not really “high” to fire him, it’s actually pretty low compared normal contract language. It’s 70% of remaining comp. Most from what I can tell are generally 90%+. (Kelsey gets 95% for example). So either his agent sucks, or UM wasn’t completely sold that he was not another flash in the pan— which lots of people here argued last spring. Let’s say Dusty wasn’t good. They give him three years. They’d owe him considerably less than we would owe Woody to leave after 4 if he had been fired, not retired (lol). It’s an incredibly friendly deal for Michigan. Like laughably so. The voluntary buyout is for sure low, I just don’t think there’s any planet where Michigan negotiates that strictly for Dusty to benefit and bolt after one season. Not with how bad the involuntary is for him. Honestly his whole contract is pretty wonky compared to others, but if I was to chalk that up to anything it would be Michigan not being all in on basketball. It’s important there absolutely, but it is and will always be an afterthought. Maybe it really was “I’ll agree to an incredibly bad deal if I get fired if you agree to a relatively low voluntary buyout” that just seems really unlikely to me. sorry for the ramble, I find these contract things fun, it’s wild in the NBA lol
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    This was always the risk of not firing Woody when a serious program would have. Dusty’s earning/job power could only go down staying at a job as bad as FAU. He was always leaving whether it was for us or someone else. Anyone thinking Dusty has a low buyout because he “knew” IU would most likely be open is huffing paint. Both of his buyouts (vol/nonvol) are relatively low. It’s for the same reason a not insignificant amount of people here thought Dusty “wasn’t ready” and “needed to prove it at P5” before getting a job like IU. Dusty didn’t go into a negotiation and say, “Thanks, for giving me the first high major job of my career, but I’m am going to need you to leave my voluntary departure buyout reasonable to help a conference rival hire me away next season in case they fire their shitty coach and I turn out to be a good coach.” It’s utter nonsense. We missed the boat. Hope I am wrong, and I’m not saying I don’t think one day he will coach at IU, but I have a really hard time believing it will be next season.
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    I mean, the student section basically names itself with this option, which is a tick for Pro column in my opinion… JANS’ FANS Please don’t delete me. Edit: the students behind the basket could all have IU hand fans to wave….. okay might just delete myself.
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    You misunderstand me, I liked it. That’s the type of post we need. I too was joking, kind of :)
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    If McCasland loses tonight and I have to cross him off the list too, my list is going to have no names on it. Need a win tonight, let’s go.
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    Pharmaceuticals.
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    And I was sitting here thinking that new guy was being a buzzkill, thanks for that little reminder Wayne.
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    Brick Crevens
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    Am I crazy or does this really sound like he’s politicking for our job lol, hard to not see that as a shot direct across Woodys bow. Ego, booing, message board noise? That seems awfully close to home. Or maybe UCLA fans want him as fired as we wanted Woody.
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    There's a button for that.
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    Picture this: Brad Stevens and Jim Gray Boston area Boys and Girls Club Primetime Television The Bradcision
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    That was a weekly occurrence in McNutt.
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    Underrated insult tbh. Now I have to find a way to call someone Big Fella and Pencil Neck in the same day at work.
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    *Aggressively adjusts oversized pants and slams some ambiguous liquid in a dasani bottle*
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    That's six days in a row. Hova REALLY has some 'splainin to do now.
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